Sharon Van Etten’s ‘Epic’ streaming at NPR’s site

Former Murfreesboroan Sharon Van Etten is getting ready to release her new album, Epic, on October 5, and NPRMusic.org has it streaming in full in the meantime.

They share some high praise for the album along with the advance streaming, too.

"While a lot of singer-songwriters dole out painfully obvious details about their own heartache, Van Etten writes and sings about the world she inhabits with a beautiful and uncertain curiosity," NPR's Robin Hilton writes. "Her songs are heartfelt without being overly earnest; her poetry is plainspoken but not overt, and her elegant voice is wrapped in enough rasp and sorrow to keep from sounding too pure or confident."